Purpose and requirements for Pdb

Intended purpose

• The accumulation of information relating to all areas of paragliding: equipment, flight sites, training materials, standards, requirements, etc.
• Providing information to developers, manufacturers, pilots.
• Providing information to other websites.
• The Centre for Cooperation and Understanding on Paragliding between people speaking different languages, working in different fields.

Requirements

• Integrity, relevance, reliability of information.
• Full functionality.
• Openness.
• User-friendly interface.
• Uniform terminology.
• Translation into other languages.
• Discussions, Corrections, Harmonization of data.
• Wide publicity.
• Recognition.
• Data exchange with other websites.
• Single format for easy data exchange, processing and display.
• Tools for participation in the development of infostructure, promotion of the infobase.

Questions that need answers

(to which the Unified Infobase would help to answer quickly)

• Proven, tested, reliable, recognized equipment models.
• New models, their advantages.
• New inventions, their tasks.
• What brands are leading by what characteristics.
• Which characteristics are most important at present, which are no longer important.
• New features requiring attention.

• Leading manufacturers, developers.
• New manufacturers, developers.
• Leading pilots.
• What brands are popular in what types of flights.
• All pilots, what equipment they use, statistics.

• Methods and techniques for measuring characteristics (e.g. speed, best glide).
• Comparative equipment tests.
• Safety assessment techniques.
• Teaching methods.
• Techniques for using equipment.
• Equipment testing procedures before use.
• Techniques for laying, storing equipment.
• Transfer of experience.

• Where to buy.
• Where to study.
• Instructors, test pilots.
• Schools, clubs.
• Theory, books, films, manuals.
• Technical information on equipment operation and repair.
• Information base for designers and developers.
• Print media.
• Shops.

• Flight locations, their characteristics, features. How to get there, who to call. Statistics of successful flights, as well as injuries and accidents.
• Action plans.
• Flight departure reports.
• Competition results, statistics.
• Injury and accident statistics by equipment model.
• Feedback, reviews, tests, reports, ratings, expert opinions on all areas of paragliding.

• A quick analysis of the state of the industry. What's new, what are the latest achievements, what are the immediate plans.
• Conducting various types of analysis of equipment, events, incidents.
• Identification of ways to optimize, upgrade equipment.

Why did this topic arise

Currently, there are already several databases, but there is not one complete and sufficiently functional. In addition to them, there are many websites containing fragmented information, the search for which is difficult. Efforts must be made to make it possible to collect, organize, classify information in all directions and provide a convenient interface.

We need a service that allows us to detect and promote advanced technologies, advanced methods, materials, design solutions. So that the developers wondered not about “what words to describe their unsuccessful decision, so that everyone would take it for ingenious development”, but about “in which direction to look for new technical capabilities, to invent in order to provide even better flight quality and even greater safety”.

Collaborate to the best of your ability, and together we will create such a database.
Feel free to suggest points that I missed.